Hi! Remember Me?

Some of you may have noticed (or maybe none of you noticed, but I need to pretend I’m loved, okay?) that I haven’t been updating the blog or either of my Facebook Fan Pages much lately.  You’ll never guess why! So I’ll just tell you:  The air conditioner in my office broke and it’s way too hot to work in there right now.  We have central air in the rest of the house, but since our furnace is old and weak, it doesn’t do a very good job of pushing the cold air up there.  Cold air wants to drop, you see.  So it takes a really strong and determined furnace to force the cold air to go against nature.  Plus, the 2nd floor is essentially a converted attic, and whomever converted it did a crap job of insulating it.  (Note:  we’ll be taking care of both the weak furnace and the lack of insulation this winter when we do an government sponsored energy audit & repairs).

For those reasons, we keep a small window A/C unit upstairs.  It went kerplunkity just before we left on vacation, but that was okay because we figured we replace it when we got back.  Then we got back and it wasn’t really that hot out.  So we put it off.

Now it’s hot.

I mean really hot. 

Like, humidexes in the range of 45 degrees Celsius.  (That’s 113 degrees in American.) 

Don’t know what a humidex is?  Be glad.

Here is the latest weather report for my town.  Note the time.  It’s full dark out, and it’s still this warm.  And the humidex advisory is still in effect.  At night.  So folks, no mowing the lawns or putting gas in the car! 

Don’t know what a humidex advisory is?  Be glad.

I converted it to American just in case you aren’t familiar with the wacky metric system:

 

The goal is to have a replacement unit by the end of the week, since it stays hot well into October ‘round these parts.  Then I can get back to my informative aromatherapy and essential oil posts.  I know you’ve missed them!

(P.S.  I know that temperature is measured in degrees “Fahrenheit” and not “American”.  I just say American because I think the United States is the only country that still officially uses the Empirical system.  I am lucky enough to be bi-lingual in understanding temperatures, since I was raised right next to the American border.)